Police suspicion and discretionary decision making during citizen stops

Criminology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 407-434

  Alpert, Geoffrey P ^a   Macdonald, John M ^b   Dunham, Roger G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen stops; Police decision making; Police suspicion

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544467464     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0011-1348.2005.00012.x     Document Type: Article

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